William Carlos Williams 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
I think that the other theme of William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is hope because in the poem it states, “so much depends upon a red wheel barrow” (William’s 309). The red wheel barrow is used to represent the blood of life and the white chicken or the sick little girl is depending on blood in order to survive. The little girl is hoping that she will be able to get better because in order to survive you need to have water and blood in your body.
The poem “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg seems to be about the city of Chicago and the poem opens up with list of names that he associates Chicago with by calling it “Hog Butcher for the World, /Tool Maker” (Sandburg 279). Then poem goes on to explain what life is like in Chicago and
he says that there are killers living there and families that are starving. The poem “Fog” by Carl Sandburg uses a metaphor in the first stanza because he states, “The fog comes/on little cat feet” (Sandburg 280). Sandburg in the opening stanza is comparing a fog to a cat because just like a cat creeps towards you, a fog has the same effect. Sandburg’s poem “Cool Tombs” is describing how everyone’s life will eventually come to an end and how when we all die we are placed in tombs because after each stanza he states, (Sandburg 280-281). The last poem by Sandburg is “Grass,” which is about the famous battlefields during the wars and where all the dead bodies are buried, and then the grass grows over these bodies to cover them up.
The poem “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams’ is about someone who is on a road that leads to a hospital and they are describing the scenery to us. They describe the scene to us by saying that there fields with mud, leaves that are all dried up and then the poem shifts and the speaker describes to us how spring is coming. Williams’ poem “Dead Baby” describes how a mother is mourning the loss of her child and crying because it states, “The mother’s eyes where she sits/by the window, unconsoled-/have purple bags under them” (Williams’ 309). We can see that the loss of a child is very hard on a mother. The poem ends with the women moving on with the next chapter of her life. The last poem by Williams’ “This Is Just to Say” is about the speaker of the poem who is describing to the audience how they have eaten plums, which were in an icebox and how they were probably going to be someone’s breakfast and then he apologizes for eating them. This poem is emphasizing the idea that everyone always does something that is considered to be wrong and after we commit the act, we should always apologize for what we did. The speaker in this poem is owning up to the mistake that they had made.
The poem “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg seems to be about the city of Chicago and the poem opens up with list of names that he associates Chicago with by calling it “Hog Butcher for the World, /Tool Maker” (Sandburg 279). Then poem goes on to explain what life is like in Chicago and
he says that there are killers living there and families that are starving. The poem “Fog” by Carl Sandburg uses a metaphor in the first stanza because he states, “The fog comes/on little cat feet” (Sandburg 280). Sandburg in the opening stanza is comparing a fog to a cat because just like a cat creeps towards you, a fog has the same effect. Sandburg’s poem “Cool Tombs” is describing how everyone’s life will eventually come to an end and how when we all die we are placed in tombs because after each stanza he states, (Sandburg 280-281). The last poem by Sandburg is “Grass,” which is about the famous battlefields during the wars and where all the dead bodies are buried, and then the grass grows over these bodies to cover them up.
The poem “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams’ is about someone who is on a road that leads to a hospital and they are describing the scenery to us. They describe the scene to us by saying that there fields with mud, leaves that are all dried up and then the poem shifts and the speaker describes to us how spring is coming. Williams’ poem “Dead Baby” describes how a mother is mourning the loss of her child and crying because it states, “The mother’s eyes where she sits/by the window, unconsoled-/have purple bags under them” (Williams’ 309). We can see that the loss of a child is very hard on a mother. The poem ends with the women moving on with the next chapter of her life. The last poem by Williams’ “This Is Just to Say” is about the speaker of the poem who is describing to the audience how they have eaten plums, which were in an icebox and how they were probably going to be someone’s breakfast and then he apologizes for eating them. This poem is emphasizing the idea that everyone always does something that is considered to be wrong and after we commit the act, we should always apologize for what we did. The speaker in this poem is owning up to the mistake that they had made.